text areas not properly being sorted because of page rotation
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Key: PDFBOX-374
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-374
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Text extraction
Affects Versions: 0.8.0-incubator
Reporter: Brian Carrier
When PDFTextStripper is set to sort the text before outputting, the sorting is
not correct if a page rotation exists. The reason is because both
TextPositionComparator and PDFStreamEngine take the rotation into account. So,
the rotation is applied twice by the time the comparison is done in
TextPositionComparator.
Also, it seems that the rotation code in PDFStreamEngine is not consistent. I
verified the code for 0 and 90 degrees works, but the 180 and 270 situations do
not seem consistent with the goal of adjusting the X and Y values so that 0,0
is in the upper left, which is what the 0 and 90 code does. I do not have
examples of 180 and 270 to test with. There are no comments in this section, so
I have been guessing about its purpose.
The attached patches:
- Remove the rotation from TextPositionComparator
- Adds comments and makes changes to the 180 and 270 situations to make it
consistent with 0 and 90.
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